Inshallah! Field Marshall Trump Will Drive the Blob Into the Sea!

I seldom bet against Mearsheimer, but I think he underestimates Trump's iron will

Trump has been in office for less than a week and he means business. Within hours he was signing executive order upon executive order, directive upon directive, launching the mightiest assault against the entrenched forces of the bureaucratic deep state that it has endured to date. The war will no doubt be long and has just begun, but it is off to quite an auspicious start.

Part of of this success is simply because Trump has launched an unrelenting attack on nearly every front. A key weapon of the enemy’s arsenal is their ability to focus mass media attention on whatever the talking point of the day is. Recall the amusing widespread adoption of the line that JD Vance, possibly the most normal person to hold high office in decades, was “weird”. The line did not stick, and the enemy moved onto something new.

Well, much like how a blitzkrieg seeks to disrupt and collapse the enemies lines of communication in order to wreak havoc and confusion, Trump’s lighting strike has the left in total disarray. Message discipline has collapsed and the talking heads have no idea where to turn to concentrate their fire.

(As much as I tried, I couldn’t really get the full blitzkrieg analogy to work because a blitzkrieg is comprised of concentrated spear point assaults that penetrate deep into the enemy’s rear while the rest of the line is engaged. The ensuing chaos and disruption of supply and communication lines leads to widespread collapse. In contrast, Trump is just launching full on assaults on numerous fronts simultaneously and the enemy is just withering away before him.)

Any random policy Trump has enacted or discarded the past few days would normally fill a good week or more of the news cycle, with obsessive analysis and freak out. But because Trump has launched offensives on all fronts, the media can’t cover it all with the same degree of narrative control that they would have been able to under normal circumstances (plus this power has been greatly reduced thanks to Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X).

Amusingly, where they do come together to concentrate some fire are issues that are the equivalent of a strategic feint. No one, aside from the shrieking leftists who are a few bad decisions short of the psych ward, cares about Elon Musk sperging out at the inauguration. Similarly, they have wasted an enormous amount of precious air time covering the ridiculous farce of the heretic screeching at Trump in the National Cathedral.

Let them call Musk a Nazi all they want. Every second they spend on that they cannot address the hundreds of other real changes Trump is implementing at break neck speed.

It is likely that the momentum of the assault will slow down in judicial trench warfare, but I am confident that the Trump legions are more than prepared for this next phase of combat as well.

While there is more to say on that, the reason I bring it up is because there was a good discussion between John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris, and Glenn Diesen that came out Tuesday, the day after the inauguration.

(The original link was to Diesen’s YouTube channel, but has been removed for some reason. This is the same talk on the Duran’s channel.)

As one would expect with such an all star cast, the discussion is great and worth a listen. However, as much as it pains me to disagree with my beloved Senpai, Mearsheimer-sama, I think that he is being too pessimistic about the odds of Trump overhauling US foreign policy.

In short, Mearsheimer thinks that the deep state and entrenched interests of the Blob will succeed in thwarting Trump. He has said this many times even before Trump won. However, Trump’s actions the past few days give me some hope and optimism that even though it will no doubt be a tough fight, it is indeed winnable.

As mentioned above, Trump is on a rampage on all fronts. Whereas his team was completely unprepared in 2017, they had four years to prepare a detailed battle plan that they were ready to enact within minutes of him taking office. And to my joy, it is clear that part of that plan included addressing our out of control and disastrous foreign policy.

There are several points of evidence that indicate Trump means business on this front as much as any others.

First, Pete Hegseth for Sec Def is a great choice. I was taken aback when this pick was announced and thought that it was posted by a satire account. However, there are several reasons that he is a good choice. Hegseth was in the National Guard and went through the hardship that the War on Terror inflicted on military families. He has openly endorsed the Defend the Guard Act which is a state level bill that prohibits a state from allowing its guard to be called up and deployed to a combat zone without a congressional declaration of war. This is truly monumental. Finally, he is also on the record acknowledging that the US would currently lose a war with China, this is quite important because that reality seems to have not set in for many people in the Blob.

(As I write this, Hegseth was just confirmed, thanks be to God.)

Second, Trump cut off all foreign aid with the exception of Israel and Egypt. This cut off does include Ukraine. That is huge. I do not know what to expect from Trump’s negotiations with Putin, but I am optimistic that Trump wants a deal and will be willing to bend Ukrainian and European arms to get it (much as the Israeli media laments that Trump did to Bibi to get the current ceasefire deal on Gaza).

Third, in addition to Hegseth, he is making some great personnel choices further down the totem pole. Notably, Blobians are quite in a tizzy about the Deputy Assistant Sec. Def. for Middle East Policy, Mike DiMino. DiMino was formerly at Defense Priorities, which is a giant green flag, and is on the record as saying things like:

“There are no vital or existential U.S. interests in the region,”

“We’re really there to counter Iran, and that’s really at the behest of the Israelis and the Saudis,”

“I’m absolutely in favor of getting closer to a point of offshore balancing, reducing U.S. security commitments in the region,” DiMino said. “Removing troops is a way to do that.”

These lower level picks are being influenced by Dan Caldwell, a great guy who has been in the realism and restraint camp for many years. Of course the Blobians are freaking out about him too.

But toss all these points aside. There is another reason to think that Trump has it out for the Blob: good old fashioned revenge.

When Trump left the White House in 2021 former military brass and various and sundry underlings couldn’t wait to out themselves for how they deliberately disobeyed and thwarted Trump at every turn.

What are the chances Trump has forgotten the anonymous executive staffer’s essay in the New York Times bragging about trying to stop Trump? Will he forget Vindman and the humiliation of the impeachment farce? Will he forget that he ordered all troops out of Syria and the brass just didn’t do it? Will he forget that Mark Milley literally called China to say he would be disobeying Trump if things got crazy?

Trump has not forgotten. He is well aware that the Blob will attempt to do that all again. But he has had four long years to reflect on what went wrong, and, equally important, he has built up a team to assist him in waging war against the Blob.

Combine that history with the aura of divine destiny that Trump has adopted since he almost had his head blown off in Butler PA, and I think it is safe to say that Trump will be striving to have the bureaucratic opposition bend the knee, be exiled to a post in the Aleutian Islands, or be fired (hopefully with a ban on getting a cushy job at Booz Allen Hamilton for a few decades). There is no substitute for total victory.

In the immortal words of Miho Nishizumi: Panzer Vor! Go forth and crush our enemies, Field Marshal Trump!